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[sab]

Five Times The Doctor Was (Adorably) Oblivious To Rose's Sexual Advances, for thedorkygirl

1. Actually he thought the overcoat might have been a bit much, gilding the lily and all that, but when he came out of the wardrobe room for the first time and saw Rose's eyebrow cock and saw her big toothy smile he decided it must be a smart look after all.

2. It was Rose who'd said, "she should get another go, yeah? Travelling with you's way worth it, and I know just how she feels." And so the Doctor had invited Sarah Jane to come along, and when she refused the Doctor felt so bad for Rose that he said yes to Mickey coming along instead. Give that poor boy the chance for adventure. Show Rose he's not so selfish after all.

3. And it was Rose who'd said, "clearly they chose her for a reason. I mean, beyond just she's obviously clever and bloody gorgeous." Really, it was Rose who saw the promise in Madame de Pompadour, that same good instinct he'd admired in Rose since they'd first met in the shop basement and she'd suggested that a group of idiots in any given scenario's more likely to be students than not. And so he'd invited Reinette to come along too. Give Rose a playmate, and another clever girl in the mix is never a bad idea. History got to remember Madame de Pompadour, and the Doctor would always have Paris, but in the end, time played its usually teasing game and it was Rose who was denied, who never got to spend time with Reinette. The Doctor always felt bad about that.

4. Later, when they were stranded, after the Tardis had been sucked into a black hole, Rose had said, "It could be worse. At least I'm here with you." And the Doctor knew that she meant for him to save her, that she had trusted him to take care of her, and, hell, he'd promised Jackie. "I'll get you home," he had replied, and he touched her hand, and there were tears in her eyes.

5. "How long you gonna stay with me?" He asked, in Barcelona. "Forever," she replied. He squeezed her hand. "Tumbling through space and time at your side." She squeezed back, and looked up at him, and her eyes were clear and blue and honest in the alien dusk. "I think this is what I was born for," Rose had said. "Like I've been waiting my whole life for you." The crescent of the planet's second moon slipped below the horizon, and the pink light spilled across the sky. Yeah, she's got an adventurer's soul, the Doctor had thought, and he couldn't hold back his grin. "Rose Tyler and her love affair with the Universe!" he'd proclaimed, gleefully. "Yeah," she agreed. "The Universe."

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Comments

[thedorkygirl.livejournal.com]

I cannot for the life of me pick out my favorite of these scenes. The last two sentences? Or the whole of four? The sheer ... brilliance of three, or the slight Sarah Jane/Rose subtext I see in two? Or should I simply just ADORE the Doctor's cluelessness in one?

SEE! Difficulty!

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Le squee! Thank you! The prompt was, itself, made of awesome.

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

""Yeah," she agreed. "The Universe.""

OH PATIENT ROSE. OH THICK DOCTOR!

Sigh.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Wordpants!

I'll be getting to yours shortly. *g* Thanks!

[tabula-x-rasa.livejournal.com]

*adores*

Excellent ending, but all of them are just so the Doctor. :D (And how much do I love that that planet was Barcelona? That will totally be my personal canon from now on.)

[mydwynter.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm with you on that one.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

Aww!

(It is not a clever or insightful thought, but it is my thought.)

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

Um - great, except Rose's eyes? Brown. Against all genetic probability, I know, but there you have it.

[sarah-120.livejournal.com]

Not against all genetic probablity atall - you do realise the blond hair is fake right,?!

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

Jackie's eyes are blue. Pete's eyes are blue. Blue eyes require a double recessive gene. Therefore, either Pete /=/ Rose's father, or Rose is adopted. Otherwise? Genetic impossibility.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_abulafia/]

Hair color is unconnected to eye color.

I remember having this conversation at work with a man who was convinced that his wife cheated on him on the basis of the evidence that their child had blue eyes while they both had "brown hair and brown eyes." I had to draw him a little genetic-probability table.

That said, Rose has brown eyes, and brown eyes is a dominant phenotype, so if the possibility of brown eyes existed in her genetic background, it would have expressed itself in either Pete or Jackie.

Anyway...!

[midasu.livejournal.com]

The idea that the Doctor invited Reinette to be Rose's playmate is to cute. You write an adorable clueless Doctor.

[cazling.livejournal.com]

#4! #5! *dies*

*DIES*

[avidbeader.livejournal.com]

*chortles* Nicely done.

[faythbrady.livejournal.com]

He's adorable. Simply adorable and irresistable-- pity he's such a pillock!

[firefaery2.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's so sweet- and he's just so adorabley oblivious, and it's a little sad really, she's so patient and he's so innocent.
Gorgeous.

[canadian-kazz.livejournal.com]

Lovely little fic. Cute and charming. Well done!

[aibhinn.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I want to cuddle him or smack him after these. How adorable are all of these--every one of them so Ten, and every one of them so clueless. You've a gift for dialogue and for using it to create a window deep into the characters. :)

Adding to memories. ♥

[wiccagal-1996.livejournal.com]

Awww love for this.
Complete and utter love.
Clueless Doc is the best kind of Doc.
x

[ubixtiz.livejournal.com]

Oh, oh! These are lovely, and they make me consider the Doctor's actions from a different angle than I had before, and that is happy. I love 5. a lot, espacially Rose's response at the end; I feel like I can almost hear her tone there. Aw.